TITUSVILLE — The first person issued a summons in a campaign to end nude sunbathing at Playalinda Beach has been assessed $50 in court costs after pleading guilty in county court to disorderly conduct.

Operation Cover-up, the name Brevard County Sheriff Jake Miller has given his campaign to eliminate nudity at the popular beach, continued Wednesday with six citations.

After Michigan tourist Michael Nosis, 38, entered his plea Tuesday, Judge John Antoon withheld a judgment of guilt. That means Nosis will not have a criminal record. He was assessed court costs.

Nosis had asked for an immediate court appearance because he is leaving the state. Antoon was sitting in for county judges who are out of the county at a seminar.

One man cited Wednesday said he did not see signs prohibiting nudity posted at the park entrance. Nosis also said he did not see the signs.

''When we were leaving we saw these temporary-type signs, but I wondered then why, if this is against the law, the signs weren't permanent,'' said the 35-year-old Kissimmee resident who works at Walt Disney World. The man, who asked not to be identified, also questioned why the signs were placed at the entrance to the park when the nude section is nearly 5 miles north of that point.

Miller responded that the signs are removed every evening and replaced in the morning by park rangers. Last year, he said, the signs were stolen or destroyed.

North Precinct commander Rick Shimer said deputy sheriffs took pictures of the signs at 9:30 a.m. when they first went to the beach. He said signs were posted at the entrance because traffic is usually moving slower there.

Deputies working in the agricultural-marine unit have been conducting the beach patrols during regular duty hours, Shimer said. Their primary complaint about the detail is the heat, he said.

The Kissimmee man said only 20 to 30 people were sunbathing, all in the nude, when a fellow nudist warned them that deputies were on their way.

''We were just a little slower than some of the others in putting our suits on. It is such a remote place and everyone else there was nude so we didn't see what was wrong,'' the man said.

The man also said that other nudists at the beach were not issued summons because they got dressed before deputies got to them.

''We're not trying to hide in the dunes and jump out at these people. We're pretty obvious in what we're doing,'' Shimer said. He said a lot more summons could be issued but that deputies weren't going to ''quibble'' over whether someone was nude or not. Shimer said the people getting summons now are ''just ignoring the law.''

The Kissimmee man said that the day had been ''pretty dull'' until deputies arrived.

Five other people were cited for disorderly conduct, two from Orlando, two from Casselberry and one from Winter Park.